Can you believe it! Today we had our first two baptisms since getting our mission call. We've been working on these baptisms for eight years actually. They were two of our beautiful granddaughters and it was such a special day. Our daughter Julie's daughter, Abigail, was baptized by her father and confirmed by her grandpa, Truman, this morning at a baptismal service at their stake center. Our daughter Chris's daughter, Navy, was baptized by her father at 5:00 at our stake center and will be confirmed in our ward tomorrow.

We'll be heading for the MTC in a month. We've sure got a lot to do to get ready. We have our area assignment in Trinidad. We will be taking the place of Elder and Sister Leavitt who, it turns out, just happen to be from St. George, Utah, too. We hope to get to see them when they get back before we leave. We will be serving in Chaguanas about a 30 minute drive from the Mission Office. We are very fortunate because we won't have to go apartment hunting. We will be able to take over the home they have been renting AND they will be leaving a lot of things behind that they have accumulated since they started their mission. What a blessing for us.

We go into the MTC on Oct. 6th which in the Monday after General Conference. We were very lucky to get tickets for the Sunday afternoon session of conference. We're really looking forward to that because we haven't ever attended a session in the new conference center.

We still have one more special day to look forward to with our family before we leave. Our granddaughter, Jayden (12), has been given permission by her biological father to be sealed to our son, Josh, and his wife, Angee (Jayden's mother). That sealing will take place in the St. George Temple on Sept.27th, the day before we speak in church for the last time in 23 months.

I'll try to update again in a week, if there is anything to say.